| Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta | |
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| Born | 22 April 1808  Llerena |
| Died | 11 March 1899 (aged 90) Madrid |
Joaquín Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta (22 April 1808 – 11 March 1899) was a Spanish politician and businessman.
Biography
Born in Llerena on 22 April 1808, the only son of Luis Figueroa y Casaus (an afrancesado who moved to Marseille after May 1808 and made a considerable fortune investing in mining companies dedicated to lead extraction in Andalusia) and Luisa Mendieta. Ignacio would inherit his father's companies. He received an education in Paris, and, after working for a time as the representative of the interests of his father in Spain, he settled in Madrid in 1845.
In 1852, he married Ana de Torres, viscountess of Irueste, forming a union between an affluent bourgeois—him—and an aristocrat in economic hardship, so he got to enter aristocratic circles. He earned a seat at the Congress of Deputies for the first time in 1865, replacing the vacant seat left by Manuel García Barzanallana in the district of Guadalajara. He renewed his seat during the reign of Isabella II in 1865 and 1867. He became senator for the first time in the 1867–1868 period. Durante the reign of Amadeo I, Figueroa was elected as deputy in representation of Puentedeume at the 1872 election.
Following the Bourbon Restoration, he was elected member of the Congress in the first election that took place in the new regime in 1876, in representation of Guadalajara; appointed as Senator he renounced to his deputy seat in 1877. He served at the Senate until 1899.
He died in Madrid on 11 March 1899.
He was the father of Francisca de Paula, José, Álvaro (the Count of Romanones), Gonzalo and Rodrigo, spawning one of the most influential families in Spain during the Restoration period.
References
- Citations
- ^ "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 24. Elecciones 22.11.1864". Congreso de los Diputados.
- Chastagnaret 2000, pp. 344–345.
- Gortázar 1989, pp. 252, 254–255.
- ^ Moreno Luzón 1996, p. 147.
- Gortázar 1989, p. 258.
- Shubert 2003, pp. 65–66; Moreno Luzón 1996, p. 147.
- "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 25. Elecciones 1.12.1865". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 26. Elecciones 10.3.1867". Congreso de los Diputados.
- ^ "Figueroa y Mendieta, Ignacio. Marqués de Villamejor". Senado de España.
- "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 29. Elecciones 2.4.1872". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 32. Elecciones 20.1.1876". Congreso de los Diputados.
- De Figueroa y Melgar, Alfonso (1900). Estudio Histórico Sobre Algunas Familias Españolas. Fabiola. p. 156. ISBN 8493717320.
- ^ Peña Guerrero & Sierra 2001, p. 36.
- Gortázar 1989, p. 252.
- Bibliography
- Chastagnaret, Gérard (2000). "L'Espagne, puissance minière: dans l'Europe du XIXe siècle". Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez. 16. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez. ISBN 84-95555-06-9. ISSN 0213-9758.
- Gortázar, Guillermo (1989). "Las dinastías españolas de fundidores de plomo de Marsella: don Luis Figueroa y Casaus (1781-1853)" (PDF). Haciendo historia: homenaje al profesor Carlos Seco. pp. 251–260. ISBN 84-7491-246-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-19.
- Moreno Luzón, Javier (1996). "El conde de Romanones y el caciquismo en Castilla (1888-1923)". Investigaciones Históricas: Época Moderna y Contemporánea. 16: 145–166. ISSN 0210-9425.
- Peña Guerrero, María Antonia; Sierra, María (2001). "Andalucía". El Poder de la Influencia: Geografía del Caciquismo en España (1875-1923). En: José Varela Ortega (Ed.). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia y Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales: 17–45. ISBN 84-259-1152-4.
- Shubert, Adrian (2003) . A Social History of Modern Spain. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 1134875533.